I assume we've all heard of El Vez by now - the Mexican Elvis 'impersonator' whose hits include En El Barrio and Esta Bien Mamacita. His Christmas show came through town on Saturday and it was pretty much live every other Christmas show of his I've seen - which is to say it was brilliant.In addition to the Elvis songs in spanglish, Brown Christmas, ¿Mamacita donde esta Santa Claus?, Poncho Cl..
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KMRIA play for two holidays - St. Patrick's Day and Christmas. The Christmas show was last Friday and it was _brilliant_. The band is a Pogues cover band made up of some Portland all stars - specifically:Chris Funk and Jenny Conlee of the DecemberistsEzra Holbrook of Dr. TheopolisScott McCaughey of The Minus 5 and The Young Fresh FellowsHanz Araki of The Whyos and PaperboysJesse Emerson of Am...
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As some of you know, Columbus is the next Detroit. Local pop punk band The Squares as no more - from their site..."no more squares. we did manage to dump a healthy chunk of money and time into a record before we split and since we have no interest in putting any more money into it, but we still like it, we've put it up on our website for you to have. it's free. it's at www.wearethesquares.com ...
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So now that it is the day after Thanksgiving, my playlist will show almost nothing other than Christmas music.Some favorites include:Low - Christmas = one of the best recent straightforward un-ironic Christmas albums, even if its only an EP.Christmas Remixed = A collection of traditional Christmas songs (traditional meaning Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, etc.) cut up by various DJs. It works surp...
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So there was this punk band called The Scuds. (Geddit?) They then got wrapped up in the alt.country thing in the early 90s and became The Scud Mountain Boys. (Geddit?) The Scud Mountain Boys release one verrrry mellow acoustic album way back in 1995 highlighted by Joe Pernice's smooth voice.After a couple on one off name changes to Chappaquiddick Skyline and Big Tobacco the newly named Pernice ...
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The Starlight Mints have the coolest 'video projected on the band on stage' setup around.You've seen bands show movies or video clips a zillion times and they usually are:- frenetic colored oil or some simulation thereof- sepia toned landscapes- old public service announcements, medical films, and cartoonsThe Starlight Mints project simple bold 2-D graphics that may or may not move around. (lin...
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I picked up the new Bloodshot Records DVD "Bloodied but Unbowed" since I am still a fan of all things Bloodshot. It is a nice little compilation of music videos (artists like Bobby Bare Jr and Paul Burch made music videos - who knew?) and live sets as well as 'Stories.' The stories being short films on Bloodshot, SXSW, and some specific artists (Ryan Adams, Split Lip Rayfield, etc.) Highlights...
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The New York Dolls (what's left of them - David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain and four new guys) churned out a surprisingly good show this past weekend in Portland. Johansen, who bears a strong resemblance to your eccentric great aunt, is still a powerful and engaging front man whether he's encouraging a sing along, doing the rock star cliche thing (We Love Portland!) or tearing through songs like
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Those of you withA. a TivoB. a digital music collectionC. those two things networked togethermight want to check out Audio Faucet. It is an application you install on your computer allowing you to stream MP3s to your Tivo (and therefore television and stereo). I've used the default Tivo application for this as well as some other products like Galleon. The default app is lame since it just sh...
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Prior to the MC Chris show (see below) I was at the Lambchop show down the road. (I do have some taste). The Lambchop contingent was somewhat reduced from the 15 or so member line up - just Kurt, drums, keys and a few guitars. There were, however, augmented by the Tosca string quartet. Tosca, if you are not familiar, is a hip classical act from Austin - most noted for doing the soundtrack to...
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